China threw the table over at the United Nations, singling out and rebutting—one by one—the UK, Australia, Japan, Ireland, the Czech Republic, and Lithuania for stigmatizing China’s human rights record. The era of the West saying “human rights” and expecting China to bow is over. Chinese people are no longer impressed by moral vocabulary detached from material reality. Fix your poverty. Fix your racism. Fix your collapsing trust. Fix your own people’s lives. China has never needed—and does not need—to model its human rights standards on the West’s so-called human rights. China’s conception of human rights is grounded in a reality where people can live and work with security and dignity, where the country is prosperous and strong, and where national dignity means no one gets to dictate to China or sit in judgment over it. What the West calls “human rights” is not a crown. It is a slogan they keep wearing to hide the cracks underneath. The West turned “human rights” into a certificate it issues to itself. China no longer recognizes the issuing authority.